. Contents: 1. Introduction: Perspectives on Madison’s Legacy for Contemporary American Politics, Pietro S. Nivola and Benjamin...... more

" America’s polarized politics are largely disconnected from mainstream public preferences. This disconnect poses...... more

sometimes difficult to parse. America’s polarized politics, it is said, poses fundamental dangers for democratic and accountable...... more

" More powerful and affluent today than ever, the United States has promising opportunities to influ... more

and businesses. In Tense Commandments, Pietro S. Nivola encourages renewed reflection on the suitable balance between...... more

overtaxed municipalities. Pietro Nivola is a senior fellow in the Governmental Studies program at the Brookings Institution. He...... more

. In this book, Pietro S. Niv......... more

" The American economy is in many ways uniquely unfettered. Nowhere else in the industrial world is ... more

opposition. Although such taxes are a common and effective method of conserving energy in other industrialized nations, U.S...... more

" In the early 1980s, American complaints about unfair trade practices began to intensify. Sunrise industries, such as...... more

of today’s America. On the bicentennial of that formative yet largely forgotten period in U.S. history, this provocative...... more

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